Rated PG-13 For Intense War sequences, images of wounded, Language and sensuality.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsdale, Jon Voight, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Alec Baldwin.

Written By: Randall Wallace (Screenplay)

Directed by: Michael Bay

Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Touchstone Pictures

Distributed By: Buena Vista Pictures

The Most Intense Depiction of Pearl Harbor attack in film history, but you have to wait through a corny Love Story (a long one) until the attack.

This historical Fiction look at the Japanese suprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (The day that will live in Infamy), the Preview tricked some people into going into seeing this film for the attack sequence, most of the movie is a corny love story of a pilot (Affleck) and his love for his Nurse girl (Beckinsdale). The nurses are portrayed as guy crazy, I'm sure not all nurses during the event were of this variety. There are plenty of humorous jokes in the beginning, but this is taken to the extreme it is taken to long. The attack is 45 minutes of the 3 hour 3 minute film, and the bulk of this movie is the love story and bringing in a love triangle which isn't very lovely. When we finally get to the attack we see some of the most graphic depiction of a suprise attack. but it shows how American Military Leaders weren't sure if Japan was a real threat, but the Japanese showed them they mean business. The Japanese get great lines like "we have finally awaken the sleeping giant" through subtitles (some go by fast) , one of the problems with the japanese portrayal is that the subtitles don't show every word they say, only a bit of the conversation is subtitled (the first line is in japanese then the subtitles come on). The other some racial comments at Japanese.

Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer are famous for blowing things up, so it isn't hard for them to blow things up in this movie they get to blow up all the ships. and they look spectacular as well as disturbing. Through the events shown in this film it could explain why we wanted to,and did,H-bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima to end WWII. but the people we bombed weren't japanese sailors, they were civilians unarmed. and we have showed them that we mean business. But at the effect of killing and mutilating and cause mutation in future generations of some Japanese civilians, we have shown that we don't care about human lives (who really is the bad guy). Some of the friends of Affleck's character act very silly in front of the nurses and one guy says "It's a dud!" before getting blown up by a bomb. It seems the Japanese in this movie are killing the dumb characters. but this was an actual event so the people who actually encountered this event are much better portrayed in other Pearl Harbor films especially "Tora! Tora! Tora!".

5/10 Good Attack sequences. every thing else Blah! Blah! 50%/100% over use of blur in hospital sequence.